Today's post is not about my little corner of the world...
...but instead, a little corner of the world I was honored to visit last year.
If you've heard of the Galapagos Islands, then it just may be that you've heard of
Lonesome George...
Lonesome George became a symbol of the Galapagos and "the urgent
need to conserve nature"...
all kinds of souvenir paraphernalia throughout the islands featured some kind of
rendering of Lonesome George...
Lonesome George died Sunday, at the age of approximately 100 years young.
That's only middle aged for a Pinta island giant tortoise.
What makes this an especially sad time is that Lonesome George was believed to be the
last of his species. Many attempts were made to "help" Lonesome George to
mate and bring forth offspring, but apparently it never took.
While we were in the Galapagos, we were at the Charles Darwin Research Center
and visited Lonesome George.
He may have been the last of his species, but he was a popular guy...
